Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world

An independent producer made a game in a short time. It is hard for anyone to believe how popular a game like this can be.

It's a miracle that this kind of game can be logged into the NGS game console.

But what’s strange now is that this game is selling so hotly.

When factories that produce cassette tapes face requests from video game store owners, they can only report to higher levels to see how the people above them respond.

At the same time, Zuo Zhen has also conducted many contract negotiations with the NGS contract team.

"Squirrel Wars can only provide a production quota of up to one million cassettes. However, after our main tasks during this period are completed, we can increase the cassette quota in time."

"And Mega Man, we recommend not to release it within three months. First of all, we really can't produce that many cassettes. This is not to lie to you, but we really can't do it, so we hope the release will be delayed."

"Then, Mr. Zuo Zhen, we are sorry that we cannot agree to your request to register several other small games such as Chinese chess and poker on NGS because you have exceeded the annual game sales limit set by the publisher at the beginning of our NGS. .”

The specialist in charge of contract signing placed the contract documents in front of Zuo Zhen one after another.

Those are several licensing contracts.

Next, the share of Squirrel Wars and Mega Man will be adjusted to 30%, but Zuo Zhen needs to provide tens of millions of yen in cassette production funds for the production of Squirrel Wars cassettes.

As for copyright, the twenty-year agreement is still the same as before.

However, Rockman Zuo Zhen directly refused.

Mega Man will be a very long-term project in the future, and Zuo Zhen doesn’t want to completely tie this game to NGS.

As for Squirrel Wars and Contra, they are games that do not require long-term development or short-term development, so the copyright is given to them, and asking for more money is important.

Therefore, the funds that I can get back this time are about 200,000 US dollars, which is enough. When I return to China, I plan to exchange 100,000 US dollars first, and keep the rest in the overseas account for backup.

If you need money for anything, you won't be at a loss.

"This contract is okay, and Rockman really doesn't have to worry."

Since the other party has already given his own suggestions, Zuo Zhen also feels that Rock Man does not need to worry.

But what surprised him was that NGS would also have a limit on the number of games produced each year.

It seems that this is really the Nintendo of this world.

In the early years of Nintendo's past, in order to ensure the quality of games, both large and small companies limited themselves to a fixed number of games each year.

If it exceeds, they will reject it directly.

No matter how fun your game is, it won't work.

Nintendo was confident at the time because they confidently believed that this was the most reasonable method.

It's just that the NGS of this world didn't expect that an outlier like Zuo Zhen would appear.

After the contract was signed, Zuo Zhen's mission here was basically completed, and he was ready to return to China to develop his fourth official game.

"Zuo Zhensang, I have a suggestion. If you want to develop some outstanding games, you can wait for a year. After a year, your game should be of good quality, and then log in to NGS. It’s definitely better.”

Zuo Zhen was noncommittal about this.

Only he knows this kind of thing best, and his efficiency in making games will not increase in quality by extending the time.

Unless he makes some magical changes to the game.

But for the most part, there is no need for magical modifications, because the quality of the game itself is already very good, and it is also the limit of what the current NGS game machine can do. It is difficult to add more details.

It is easy for later games to add content because the game itself is very empty, and adding things will not affect anything.

However, the current game capacity needs to be picked up, and nothing can be wasted. It must be cherished very much.

Zuo Zhen answered the other party casually, and then left with the current funds.

In the remaining few days, Zuo Zhen was not in a hurry to return to China.

After finally going abroad, and now that I am not short of money, I might as well buy more things and return home.

The first thing to buy is a gift for employee number two.

As his only employee, Zuo Zhen had to cherish him. What if he ran away unhappy.

So gifts must be chosen carefully.

Speaking of which, Yu Mengchen doesn't seem to be a person who is short of money.

Judging from the information revealed between the lines, Yu Mengchen's family is also doing a lot of business.

Then don’t consider expensive ones. Anyway, people are not short of money, so just pick something that is thoughtful enough.

But when it came to being thoughtful, Zuo Zhen was in trouble.

He has never bought a gift for a girl.

Whether in his previous life or in this world, he had never done such a thing.

In his previous life, apart from his studies, he was focused on his career, and he simply put aside love and other matters.

Even more so in this world.

"Hi~! Things in Japan are really expensive now."

Zuo Zhen kept lamenting Japan's consumption level.

I dare to sell you 50,000 yen for a small lipstick.

Even more ruthlessly, there is a small bag, the value of which starts at one million yen.

Zuo Zhen touched his wallet.

This money is also very cheap to spend in Japan.

Forget it, find something else.

Zuo Zhen searched for a long time, but in the end he couldn't find one that suited his liking.

By the way, Yu Mengchen likes painting very much.

So, how about buying a set of painting supplies?

No, the other party shouldn't need it either.

What a headache.

…

While Zuo Zhen was struggling with the gift, there was already some chaos in a department of NGS.

At this time, the supply demand lists of many video game stores and department stores are summarized here.

There is only one game at the top of these cartridge supply demand lists.

Contra.

The head of this department became agitated when he saw this name.

Damn it, how did this game become so popular?

I really look down on the producer of this independent game.

At the same time, the head of this department was also a little jealous of Akira Nakamura.

This guy actually found a diamond in the wild among wild game producers, and it was a diamond with unlimited potential.

If you imagine that he found this piece of diamond, he would be very proud to show off his achievements to President Yamauchi, and do his best to make this game more popular.

But at this time, this game producer's game has clearly become Akira Nakamura's achievement.

He was very unhappy. "

"Minister, these stores are in demand for Contra cassettes. Can we stop the production lines of other less popular game cartridges first and specialize in the production of Contra cassettes?"

"Why stop?" The person in charge glared, "Continue to produce the cassettes you should produce. Contra is just a temporary hit. Sooner or later, its reputation will collapse. Don't worry about it."